Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-360) and index
Preface -- An Indian boyhood -- The Mississauga Indians -- Sacred Feathers becomes Peter Jones -- Born again -- The Mississaugas' cultural revolution -- "Go ye into all the world" -- Opposition -- Fund-raising -- Eliza -- "All out of tune" -- Land and education -- Fron Edinburgh to Echo Villa -- The final years -- Peter Jones's legacy -- Appendix 1: Peter Jones on Ojibwas' and Europeans' "Creeds and practice" -- Appendix 2: Eliza Field Jones on the character of her late husband -- Appendix 3: Mississagua place-names -- Notes
Illustrations: Totems or clan symbols of the leading Mississaugas at the western edn of Lake Ontario -- Menominee Indians spearing fish by torchlight / Paul Kane -- Ojibwa village near Sault Ste. Marie, Upper Canada, in the mid-1840s / Paul Kane -- Methodist camp meeting in Upper Canada, 1859 -- Egerton Ryerson -- "First Canadian home' / Eliza Field Jones -- Anishinabeg in the Lake Simcoe area / Titus Hibbert Ware, 1844 -- Reverend Peter Jones / Matilda Jones -- Nawahjegezhegwabe, "Sloping Sky," Joseph Sawyer / James Spencer, 1848 -- John Sunda -- Peter Jacobs -- George Copway -- Henry B. Steinhauer / John Neagle, 1829 -- Dance troupe in Europe, 1851 -- Maungwudas, Peter Jones's half-brother -- Peter Jones / a calotype by David Ocatavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1845 -- William Herkimer -- Chiefs of the Six Nations / Horatio Hall, 1871 -- Dr. Edmund Peter Jones, in his father's headdress and buckskin, 1898
Maps: The lands of the Anishinabeg and related peoples, about 1800 -- Sacred Feathers's world: Mississauga place-names at the western end of Lake Ontario -- Canadian Indian mission stations visited by Peter Jones in the mid-nineteenth century